petition的意思

基本释义

• n 请愿

  a written request signed by a lot of people, asking someone in authority to do something or change something

• v 向…请愿

  to ask the government or an organization to do something by sending them a petition

例句

1. Local residents have drawn up a petition to protest the hospital closure.

   当地居民已草拟了一份请愿书，抗议关闭医院。

2. Villagers petitioned the local authority to provide better bus services.

   村民请愿要求地方当局提供更好的公共汽车服务。

短语

• file a petition 提交请愿书

近义词

同根词